Lost in Ireland

Informationen zum Autor Cindy Callaghan is the author of the middle grade novels Lost in London , Lost in Paris , Lost in Rome , Lost in Ireland (formerly titled Lucky Me ), Lost in Hollywood , the award-winning Sydney Mackenzie Knocks ’Em Dead , Just Add Magic (which is now a breakout streaming original series), and its sequel Potion Problems . She lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Klappentext When superstitious Meghan receives a chain letter from Ireland, she takes a shortcut in its directions, and soon finds herself in a streak of bad luck that she must travel to Ireland to break.Lost in Ireland 1 If I had to pick one thing that I believe in more than anything else, it would be this: LUCK. I’m Meghan McGlinchey, the most superstitious thirteen-year-old girl in Delaware, and possibly the world. For example, I never got out of bed when my digital clock read an odd number. Odd number = bad luck. 7:02. Perfect. I dressed in a snap because every day it was the same school uniform—boring plaid skirt, plain white shirt, itchy button-up navy-blue sweater, matching headband, horrendous blue leather shoes, and kneesocks. The outfit was—how should I say this?—ugly! I dashed down the stairs, especially careful to skip the thirteenth step today because it was a very important day, one I’d been looking forward to for weeks. I was running for eighth-grade class president. And today was the election. I had done a stellar job campaigning FOREVER. If I didn’t totally mess up my speech, I was pretty sure I was gonna win. With all the practicing I’d been doing, it would take a major freak of nature for me to mess it up. I passed my four sisters and parents scrambling around in the kitchen. I opened a can of food for my cat, Lucky. He ran over when he heard it pop. I scratched his ears as he lapped up the food. I loved Lucky, but he and I had a problem. He was a black cat. And people like me, we didn’t mix well with black cats. But we had an understanding: He didn’t cross my path, and I took good care of him. It worked for us. The kitchen was louder than usual this morning. My younger sister Piper (the fifth grader) yelled at one of my older sisters, Eryn (the eleventh grader), “Why did you touch my playlist? Why? WHY?” Dad yelled across the kitchen to my mom, “Can you put a bagel in the toaster for me?” The baby, Hope, cried while my oldest sister sang her an Irish lullaby to calm her. It wasn’t working, so she tried some applesauce, which the baby threw across the room. It nearly hit my white shirt, but I ducked out of the way just in time. SPLAT! The applesauce hit the wall behind me. Phew, that was lucky! I stood at the front door, under the horseshoe mounted on the wall and next to my snow globe collection, watching the insanity. The living room was a mess with suitcases and duffel bags. We were leaving the next morning for Ireland, where we would spend spring break. The purpose of the trip was for my father to meet his newly discovered sister. You see, he’d been born in Ireland. Sadly, something happened to his parents when he was just a kid, and he’d been raised at a home for boys. Until a few months ago he hadn’t thought he had any family. But thanks to some online research, he’d found a long-lost sister. I imagined that when he met her, he’d introduce me as his middle daughter and president of Wilmington Prep’s eighth-grade class. It was gonna be totally impressive. I crunched the granola bar I’d packed in my backpack the night before—instant breakfast. With a little planning, my morning was the way I liked it: mayhem-free. In fact, I liked most things organized. I might have been the most organized eigh...

Product details

• Authors: Cindy Callaghan
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 13
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781481462068
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-6206-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: mix; Mix
• Subject: Children's and young people's books